Well E3 has come and past, and the one series that could have truly reformed itself this year has chosen to stick with the same broken gameplay formula that plauges all the games in it's francise. No I am not talking about any Madden or wrestilng game, as those are less broken than dated. I am of course reffering to the next installment of Final Fantasy, or The Adventures of the Increasingly Androgynous Adolescents with Stupid Hair and Terrible Combat Mechanics. Okay so maybe they aren't quite so androgynous as before, but that doesn't excuse or fix the fact that the combat in the game is still like playing virtual chess while taking hallucinogens. Anyone who read my thread "What Do You Want from E3" would know that the only reason I even bothered paying attention to Final Fantasy 13 this time around is that they said on the G4 website that this one was supposed to incorporate real time combat in some manner. Well it did, sort of, but the way it did so merely teased me by showing the characters prancing about in real time while the actual gameplay was still locked in FIFTEEN FUCKING YEARS AGO. Listen people, the stories presented by Square Enix alright, but so long as the combat will remain turnbased on anything other than a handheld system, I will have as much respect for it as grown man pretending to be a snail (who doesn't have some manner of tragic mental illness). By the way, don't write me off as just some idiot twitch gamer who can't appreciate good story telling. As an example, I consider GTA4 to be the best so far, because Niko Bellic and many of the other characters of the game happen to be the most human characters in any of the games so far. It is just that I like games that actually have gameplay and not just menu, after menu, after menu.
Edit: Okay people I know that no one is forcing me to play FF13, but I can still rant on it can't I? I see dozens of rants on other popular games like Halo 3, or... actually that is the only one I can think of. None the less, I never see anyone tell them off about it, aside from fanboys of course but they complain even if you don't think it is the gaming equivalent of the Sistine Chapel. My point is can't I not like something and be able to say it. Also to appease a certain escapist (you know who you are) I didn't make other paragraphs because I pretty much stayed on the same topic the whole time.
P.S. I don't know what people on this site call themselves, or what one would call a person replying to a thread, so I just went with the term "Escapist".
Edit: Okay people I know that no one is forcing me to play FF13, but I can still rant on it can't I? I see dozens of rants on other popular games like Halo 3, or... actually that is the only one I can think of. None the less, I never see anyone tell them off about it, aside from fanboys of course but they complain even if you don't think it is the gaming equivalent of the Sistine Chapel. My point is can't I not like something and be able to say it. Also to appease a certain escapist (you know who you are) I didn't make other paragraphs because I pretty much stayed on the same topic the whole time.
P.S. I don't know what people on this site call themselves, or what one would call a person replying to a thread, so I just went with the term "Escapist".
